<p>Dear SAPA-NE members and friends:</p><p>SAPA-NE is proud to present you its 10th Scientific Symposium at Tang Center MIT Sloan School of Management on Nov. 10th (Sat. 1:00PM-6:00PM). The theme of the symposium is “Seeding Innovation for Break-through Therapies”. </p><p>In the symposium, there will be six distinguished speakers from Wyeth, Biogen-Idec, Novartis, Amgen, Genzyme and Harvard. The presentation topics of the symposium range from drug discovery in Neuro- regeneration and metabolic diseases to clinical development of new cancer therapies, and to novel strategic partnering in cardiovascular drug discovery. Especially, Wyeth AVP Dr. Wozney, a finalist of 2007 Prix Galien Award USA, will talk about how he and his team discovered and developed an innovative bone-inductive therapeutic INFUSETM and its delivery system InductOsTM. The product has been launched and marketed worldwide since 2005, and found widespread use in orthopaedics. Dr. Wozney was named R&D Directions “Top 20 scientists” along with Nobel laureates Andrew Fire and Craig Mello.</p><p>Besides providing scientific learning in Drug discovery, the symposium will also be an excellent networking opportunity with Pharma/Biotech managements and with scientists. Job openings and career opportunity from companies such as Wyeth, Biogen-Idec and Pfizer, are available. For details of the symposium, please visit our web site at www.sapaweb.org </p><p>Speakers: Dr. John Wozney (AVP-Wyeth) Dr. Axel Nohtufft (Prof.-Harvard University) Dr. Gene Liau (Director-Novartis) Dr. Sha Mi (Director-Biogen-Idec) Dr. Vinod Patel (Director-Amgen) Dr. Sam Wadsworth (VP-Genzyme)</p><p>When: Saturday, November 10th, 1:00-6:00 pm</p><p>Where: Tang Center, Building E51, Room# 315, Sloan Business School, MIT Address: 2 Ambers Street, Cambridge MA Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?state=0&prl.x=3948prl.y=123 </p><p>Who: All are welcome!</p><p>Registration Fee: Free for SAPA and MIT ETF members, unemployed, MIT, Harvard and all students. 10$ for non-members and other participants.</p><p>Contact Persons: Xiaotian Zhong at 617-281-1922, [email protected]; Dongli Chen at 617-548-2782, [email protected] Mark Lin at 617-780-1450, [email protected] Bingli Ma at 978-302-5476, [email protected] </p><p>We look forward to seeing you there.</p><p>Warmest Regards,</p><p>SAPA-NE Executive Committee</p><p>SAPA-NE, 7 Mohawk Road, Burlington, MA 01803 http://www.sapaweb.org</p>